Take that

Well, that didn’t take long. On Wednesday, two women – Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks – told The New York Times that Donald Trump touched them inappropriately. That makes at least three women who have come forward since a damning 2005 video of the Republican nominee boasting about groping women surfaced last week.

But Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, isn’t one to let accusations of sexual assault get in the way of a good stump speech. He went to bat for Trump on Wednesday, extolling the virtues of forgiveness to his fellow evangelicals at Liberty University.

“As Christians,” he said, “we are called to forgive, even as we’ve been forgiven.”

Not everybody is in the forgiving mood, though. A growing number of evangelical women are appalled at the way male leaders of the religious right have continued to back Trump, columnist Erika D. Smith writes. The Republican Party, it seems, needs your prayers.

Take a number: $15.3 million

Heads rolled after it was revealed that Wells Fargo opened as many as 2 million accounts without customers’ knowledge. But the 5,300 employees sent packing somehow didn’t include the bank CEO.